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8 Visual Studio 2013 Features Developers Love

This week, Microsoft unveiled a release candidate for Visual Studio 2013, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), and it announced that the tool will hit release to

Why Is PostgreSQL Suddenly So Popular?

ReadWrite notes that open source database PostgreSQL is enjoying something of a surge in popularity with developers and enterprise IT pros. Hacker News mentions are up, and PostgreSQL job postings

Google Updates App Engine Again

Google updated its App Engine in August, but it’s already pushing out another release, version 1.8.4. It includes a number of features aimed at improving cloud development capabilities. “To make

Adobe Generator Links Design with Development

Adobe has released Generator, a tool that bridges the gap between design and development by linking Photoshop with Edge Reflow. In essence, Generator allows designers or developers to create an

Is Encryption Broken?

The New York Times has published another set of revelations about secret spying programs at the NSA, and this time they have major implications for developers. According to documents provided

How to Survive a Transition to Agile

For many enterprise application development pros, news that the company is embracing agile software development methodologies is cause for concern. After all, this type of transition radically alters the way

Apache Releases Cassandra 2.0

On Wednesday, the Apache Foundation released version 2.0 of the open source NoSQL database Cassandra. Jonathan Ellis, Apache Cassandra’s VP, noted that the five-year-old database, which was originally created by